The compleat gard'ner; . or, directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry. In six books.
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688)
Category
Books
Date
1693
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3009402
Summary
Bibliographic description
[44],106p.,107-110 leaves,111-114p.,115-116 [i.e. 118] leaves,119-184,[4];116,137-204,[4];4;80 p.,[12] leaves of plates (some folded) . port.., ill.. . fol... With a sheet of MS loose at p. 64: rhyming couplets about types of ground for different plants (17c. hand). On page c*3 recto, the name 'Lewis' has been inserted in ink above the dash in the 17th line of the 'Verses to Mr. Quintenay'. .Prev. at 6.F.7. Provenance: Bookplates: John Brownlowe, viscount Tyrconnel (armorial); Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 117. Binding: Eighteenth-century panelled sprinkled calf binding, spine gilt.
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626-1688) John Evelyn (1620-1706)